Frequency: (147)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
South German: topographic name for someone who lived downhill from a mountain lake, from Middle High German under ‘under’ + sē ‘lake’.
GIVEN NAME Scandinavian 6%. Iver (2).
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